Famous People
She was the chief organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Conductor on the Underground Railroad and later a Union spy in the Civil War
Harriet Tubman
The name given to the North's strategy to win the war
The Anaconda Plan
Parallel at which the Missouri Compromise line was drawn
36' 30"
Lincoln's plan for readmitting Confederate states back to the union?
10% Plan
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gave a famous speech, What to a slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
The costly win that emboldened Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
Most contentious part of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Act devised by Radical Republicans to entrap Johnson in an impeachable offense
The Tenure of Office Act
Illinois Senator who proposed the Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Considered the first modern general
William Tecumseh Sherman
Northern and Western victories that marked a major turning points in fulfilling the Anaconda Plan
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Supreme Court decision that denied black rights and nullified the MO Compromise
Dred Scott
The three Reconstruction Amendments
13th: ends slavery except as a punishment for crime; 14th: citizenship rights and codifies birthright citizenship; 15th: manhood suffrage
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The radical republican House leader of Congressional Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Right of due process Lincoln suspended during the war
Habeas Corpus
Argument that residents, not the government, should determine a state's slavery status
Popular Sovereignty
After losing the popular vote, the deal Rutherford B. Hayes made to become president in 1877.
End Reconstruction, withdraw troops from the South
The Union General who convinced Lincoln to label escaped slaves as contraband and issue the Confiscation Acts
Benjamin Butler
First African American elected to the US Senate
Hiram Revels
Colloquial name for Sherman's Field Order 15
"40 acres and a mule"
The event that triggered secession
Lincoln's election to the presidency
The Supreme Court case that codified and emboldened the Jim Crow South
Plessy v. Ferguson